Washington Administrative Code
Title 284 - Insurance Commissioner, Office of the
Chapter 284-24D - Medical malpractice closed claim data reporting rules for facilities and providers
Section 284-24D-320 - How should "companion claims" be reported?

(1) If a claimant makes a claim against more than one facility or provider, the reporting entity must assign the same incident identifier to each "companion claim."

(2) The reporting entity must maintain all data required under chapter 48.140 RCW and this chapter for each facility or provider it defends.

(3) Indemnity payments and allocated loss adjustment expenses paid to defend and settle each claim must be reported separately for each facility or provider. The reporting entity must allocate:

(4) If the reporting entity makes payments in the absence of clear legal liability, it may allocate claim or ALAE payments equally among all defendants.

(5) Under this section, the reporting entity is responsible for reporting incident level data only for its own claims.